"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically ...

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

Around a star just 20 light-years from the Solar System, astronomers have confirmed the existence of what might be a ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

A rocky planet less than half the mass of Earth seems to have an atmosphere made almost entirely of sulphur dioxide – this ...

The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) ...

"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

New research shows that star activity can distort exoplanet measurements, affecting size, temperature, and atmosphere ...

NASA is set to launch its latest mission, Pandora, in fall 2025 to study the atmospheres of distant exoplanets. With the ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...